If you follow Oprah on any of the social media platform’s this week, you would have noticed that she posted a picture of epic proportion, namely a ‘larger than life’, ‘cant tell meÂ nothing ‘ Afro while wearing a stunning Orange dress. This is the coolest thing ever in my opinion because I have always said if Oprah ever wore and Afro to work it would help change the game even more than it already has. I must confess I do not always buy O-magazine but I almost always grab the latest issue and flip through it while waiting on the long lines that seem to plague every Wal-Mart in the country. This is the first time she has put ‘hair’ out there like that, and not just any hair, did you see the size of that thing!?

‘Talk about a hair-raising look!Â Oprah WinfreyÂ models a giant afro wig on the September 2013 cover ofÂ O, The Oprah MagazineÂ — and the TV titan’s hefty headpiece weighed a whopping 3.5 pounds! “I wish I could say it was all mine. In fact, though, it’s borrowed. And it feels like carrying around an extra head,” Winfrey reveals. “My own hair is shorter, not quite so spherical, and a lot lighter. But that doesn’t mean it never gives me grief. When it comes to hair, I’m in the same boat as most every other woman.”

According to the Mississippi native, “The way we feel about our hair is universal: We love it when it looks great, we can’t stand it when it looks not so great, and we all want it to tell the world something about us.”

I have been reading the comments from women all over the world when Oprah posted the picture and they were all great, someÂ singing praises to Oprah for showing the beauty of the afro in such dramatic fashion, others questioning if the hair was all hers, and most of them just telling her to ‘werk’. One comment stood out the most however,Â a young lady stated that what she loved the most was that the natural hair movement started at the grass roots level, no celebrity endorsement in the beginning, and now they (the celebs) are just catching on. Natural Girls Rock!

For me Oprah wearing an Afro on the cover of her magazine, is just Oprah wearing an Afro on the cover of her magazine, but it means more to me as well, just like one of her comments mentioned, it shows the power of your own voice, whether it is on a blog, on video or just word of mouth. Everyone knows that if you are in business and you have a product that becomes ‘Oprah’s Favorite thing” You are guaranteed maximum profits for that year and years to come if you know how to surf a wave. In this case I am hoping that if she sheds light on black hair then the level of acceptance will shoot even higher than it has in the last couple of years. Wearing an afro at work still sparks heated debates and in our own homes, you might have a husband looking at a wife asking her to change her hair because ‘he doesnâ€™t like it’. My hope is that we can wear our hair proudly in a professional environment and not have to depend on a bun just in case the person on the other side of the interview table ‘doesnâ€™t get it!’

The game is changing ya’ll and if we can all feel comfortable to make natural hair a viable choice in our lifestyle then things will be a little easier for our young girls who have a thwarted view of what beauty is. Girls will not feel that they ‘have’ to get a relaxer to hide there beautiful tresses but that they can choose to get one if theyÂ want to. Beauty is no longer focused in one direction -West! we have to keep blogging and styling and showing our beautiful faces and hair because you might not know it but everyone is looking, especially our children.

On a lighter note I donâ€™t think I could rock three pounds of hair though, but I appreciate what Oprah is doing, I am with them when they say

There is a perfect example of a woman going natural for her daughter in the clip, she explains exactly what we have been talking aboutÂ and it proves thatÂ it is extremely hard to help a young child deal with hair issues when mom looks entirely different and not setting the example.

What I Didn’tÂ Like

(shenanigans begins at 5:34 on the video)

-I’m not sure I like that dude towards the end, he kinda ruins it for me, I get what he is ‘trying’ to say, but ummm aint nobody trying to follow your ass on twitter!-especially not a black bitch!! – If you are trying to make a point or drive home something positive sometimes building the argument using negative on top of negative just leads to one thingÂ two things- NEGATIVITY and counter productivity – way to go champ!

– I am not sure I like the title either, which is weird because I generally do not have a problem with the word ‘nappy’, I think its one of those things where I can use the word in my community, but you cant. does that make any sense?

Whitney is serving up Faux Bobs! the style is so simple and kinda genius ~ you ever smack yourself in the head when something so simple is invented and you are like why in the world didn’t I think of that..

Well thanks Whitney, because sometimes we just wanna fake a bob! – And I think this might be the best way to do it hands down

If you are rocking straight hair, you can probably use the same technique and it can look similar to Ciara’s below. Personally I would like to try it on curly straight hair!

I loved Ebony’s Blog Post because it is a very real topic that many of us debate on a daily basis. Let me say first and foremost that I think Going natural for our daughters does matter, it matters a whole lot. I could take a step back and say that going natural period has its perks, but if you want to set an example of acceptance even if its just with hair for your little girl then why not make the sacrifice.

There are a few schools of thought at play here, one is that we live in a society where adorning ourselves to the point of self distortion is attractive, encouraged and widely accepted. We live in a world where a woman wearing a weave does not think twice about where that human natural hair came from and what sacrifice was made to get it on her head so she can look fly Friday night at the club.

My boobs are too small, my cheeks look weird, I hate my skin tone, bleach this, enhance that, nip this, tuck that, plump this, erase that line! the images of enhancement are all around us and unfortunately our daughters are exposed to ideas that self enhancement is always necessary. As a matter of fact we have all done something to enhance our own beauty at some point in time, I mean lets face it, make up is a multimillion dollar industry! ~ tell me you have never owned some lipgloss!?

My opinion is all that doesn’t matter, what we want to teach our children is that life is about choice. If you are a religeous person thats how things started out, Choice, Do I eat the apple or not?

You want to tell your sweetheart that yes, there are things out there that people do to enhance themselves, but lets get to know ‘us’ first. Lets get to know the potential of our mind, the value of our body and spirit and how we can better serve as humanitarians, because to be human means giving back just as much as we receive.

Natural hair is not ‘Everything” it just seems like it is because you might be reading a blog dedicated to natural hair, it might be a small or big part of your life, who knows, but it is a great start, for teaching appreciation to a young girl who might not be sure that what grows naturally from her is good enough. Mommy s have a wonderful role, because they are the first role models to their little girls, mommys are watched, followed, spoken about to friends, adored by children who are constantly learning.

I would never consider my natural hair as a fad because how can a fad naturally grow from my skull. A Fad, now considered a way of life for some, is what burnt the hec out of the middle of my head causing me to make some critical decisions when it came to my own hair care. A Fad is defined as a short lived craze, I don’t see my own hair as something short lived, unless I have a bald gene I know nothing about.

The point is, teaching young girls to choose self, starts with mommy and daddy, life is about making a choice. We cant run away from the influences of life as we know it, there will always be a ‘Fad’ or craze, or new thing to do, that doesnt mean we quit teaching about value, respect and honor – those might sound like huge things, and hair is just one little thing, but what matters is that one small thing that you use each day to help them ‘get it’! – Even if that thing is only hair

I am the last person you should ask about the benefits of fine hair, I am usually the one complaining with the â€˜woes meâ€™ tales of all the tangles and frustration of my hair.

But in truth my hair is pretty cool and really the only thing that needs fixing is my attitude about it. My new thing is, when I find something to complain about I must follow up with something positive about my hair and in practicing that I have discovered that fine hair isnâ€™t so bad after all.

There are some real benefits to havingÂ thinner strandsÂ and you soon discover that the grass is actually green onÂ thisÂ side of the fence so in the spirit of all things positive here areÂ 7 benefits to having fine natural hair.

I am at the store and its almost time for me to go and all I can think about is Jamaican food! – should I be ashamed to write that, maybe? – But then again, hell no, don’t act like you don’t get hungry or think about food on Saturday evening!

Tonight the plan is to go to the new fabulous Look TheaterÂ Â to see the fabulous Superman! I am excited except for one thing the Jonross factor, usually I am not a fan of seeing small kids at the movies, but damn we haven’t seen a movie in seven months and this theater seems kid friendly and he wont watch it anyway and the lights will distract him, and he wont throw his pacifier in the back of some dude’s head like his dad predicts. (all of this I have included in a silent prayer)

Anyway come hell or high water, we are going! and we plan to have a great time and I plan to have a great dinner with something lovely to drink. I’ve heard mixed reviews about Superman, Shelli at Hairscapades said she hated it, but she is an expert on these things so her expectations are alot higher than mine. Its kinda like my brother, a total X-Men fanatic, he hated one of the X-Men movies and had all the high folluting ~ is that a word?~ reasons why it sucked, but when you didn’t read the comic books and didn’t study it as much as he did, a movie like that to an amateur like me, is well – Phenomenal!

Were you on Instagram today? I am not gonna lie, Instagram is my ish and I have already expressed myself in no uncertain terms about how I felt about Keek. Vine is new too, I didn’t even let the thought of downloading that thing enter my mind. Like many of us I am burnt out on social media but I can appreciate most of them and I can appreciate even more when one of them does a power move like Instagram did today with there launch of Insta -Video.

Lets talk about power moves for a second, to me as simple as the upgrade was, Instagram took back its following who were slightly distracted by some small but ever present competition. I bet someone over at the Instagram head quarters smacked himself in the head when Vine and Keek came out and was like ‘Damn did we just leave out a critical component from our app’ ~ yea you kinda did!

but today, Today you made a come back Instagram and your loyal followers swallowed it up!- Stock up – everything is green again!

I like to think of myself as business savvy, not because I studied alot or have a bunch of degrees, but because I live it every single day, making mistakes, learning from them, finding innovative ways to market products, navigating social media and most importantly trying to look for and make the best power moves. The hubs and I have been in business for the last three years, we did things without a brick and motor for a long time until we were able to finally score a physical location. There is nothing easy about being an entrepreneur, you will work the hardest you have ever worked in your life if you want it badly enough. For us, power moves are the ONLY way we will survive as business people and when someone makes one, we are all ears and eyes.

So what Exactly is a Power Move?

Put simply a Power move in business is that one thing that you do to set yourself apart from the competition. To be successful you have to keep making them, you cant just do one move and get stuck because somebody is always watching and somebody will always find a way to do it better than you.

How to make Power Moves in Business

1. Find ways to set yourself apart from Everyone Else

If you sell hair products, jewelry, clothing, whatever it is, there is always a way you can set yourself apart from the competition. Whether it is customer service, design, website, figure it out and do it. Over and over and over again

2. Don’t let people down

Trust is huge, why do you think Instagram is smiling all the way to the bank? its because even though they just added something they could have done a year ago, they know that we like their App, they made a quality product that is popular and that people trust.

3. Don’t hesitate to Try Something

It just might work, even if you aren’t sure about your idea, try and see if it bites. I cant tell you how many times we have done this, and 8 out of 10 times we always come away with something positive

4. Step Out Of Any Boxes You Fall in

Boxes are silly! use blogs,social media, websites to your advantage, sometimes its not just about selling the product or service, actually it is about selling the product or service, but what I mean is, a good power move requires creating relationships and longevity so that your move has meaning. To do that you have to literally step outside of your space and do something out of the ordinary. For example we sell model building kits, so we thought it would be nice to host a kit building class on Saturdays for kids and Dads. Its charitable, its fun, and at the end of the day the products sell.

My entrance into the rat race is for us a necessary power move, but I like to call it a chess move and a critical one, so nothing phases me at work because ultimately I know what it is I hope to achieve in the end. Eyes are always on the Prize! Â – They already talking about layoffs – HA!

Look forward to more posts like this as we navigate these entrepreneurial streets!

I know what you are thinking, another post about how weaves pull on the edges of your hair, causing receding hair lines, or something about how not caring for your hair underneath the weave can cause breakage and irreparable damage etc.

You may even have expected pictures of various people who suffer fromÂ Traction AlopeciaÂ as a direct result of wearing a weave. And of course to seal the deal we could also include something about the not-so-glamorous side of wearing a weave with the poster childÂ Naomi CampbellÂ all over the article.

Well respectfully, you are wrong. Thereâ€™s only so much we can say about Naomi and her busted edges so our perspective on this article is from a slightly different angle,Â some of which is somewhat psychological.

This is a wonderful video, a small lesson in hair love! When I saw that pic on Instagram I thought it was *just* funny, as most of us did. Is hair Envy really an issue, do you wish you had Tracee’s curls or anyone’s curls for that matter?